“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
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“Sorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains; but, like them, they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them”
“Every flower is a soul blossoming in nature ”
“It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it ”
“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”
“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”
“Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another”
“More than kisses, letters mingle souls”
“Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.”
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.”
“Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.”
“Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies.”
“A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life”
“The man who has no inner-life is a slave to his surroundings.”
“A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.”
“What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul”
“There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty”
“Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed”
“Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius”
“Oh heart, if one should say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower withers, but the seed remains.”
“Memory is the diary that we all carry about with us”